Word: virgin
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More than ever, the courts are stepping in: individual prisons or entire prison systems in 39 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia are either under court order to improve conditions or are the subject of litigation. In August, for example, a California judge ruled that conditions at San Quentin constituted cruel and unusual punishment. She ordered improvements in plumbing and electrical and sanitary facilities and an end to double celling. The department of corrections has responded with a proposal to transfer 350 inmates and spend $1 million on repairs...
...when the strip had hit its stride, it had pretty much vacated Walden for more pertinent venues: Cambodia, California, Washington. The show, however, mostly stays home to tackle other earth-moving topics. Will Mike Doonesbury (Ralph Bruneau), who is presented onstage as a whiny, pigeon-toed virgin reminiscent of Walter Denton on the old Our Miss Brooks TV series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed...
According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
This violent solution is in marked opposition with the other ending that is offered. Doony is stopped by her husband Shah Zaman when he sincerely confesses that he had actually never killed all the virgins. The virgin who visited him the first night showed him the foolishness of the vow and set up a society of women to which he could send them while it would appear as if he was murdering them. "After all, none would choose death over emigration," she said. This scene is beautifully acted by Giroux and McDonough, as The Woman and Shah Zaman, who athletically...
...Moderator Ford declared, "Such an immediate resupply [of Syria] would indicate to me that [the Soviets] were a willing and active participant in the arms race." Another speaker compared the Soviets in the Middle East to "someone who can't say no but claims to be a virgin...